Smoke alarm activation near Watchung Avenue

Heard on: Essex NJ Fire Dispatch Group Calls

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Central to all houses on a telephone alarm for the (number withheld) Wachung Avenue on a ground floor smoke detector.

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Central to all houses on a telephone alarm.

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It'll be (number withheld)

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Wachung Avenue on a ground floor smoke detector

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called in by. Central station,

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the time is 514 .

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Central to all houses responding to (number withheld)

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Wachung Avenue, across from Hawthorne and Lowell Terrace.

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Hawthorne and Lowell Terrace.

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Central to the deputy.

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Looking for a cancellation central.

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Affirmative, the homeowner's calling in requesting a cancel.

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We told him to call the alarm company.

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Received, that's your four.

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Received.

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Central to all apparatus that were responding to (number withheld) Watchung.

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One company for engine four,

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560 island time.

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Four responding.

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Four is on the scene.

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Air 05:19 .

8/22/2026 02:14 AM

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Watchung Ave, Bloomfield, NJ 07003

Smoke alarm activation near Watchung Avenue

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire units were dispatched to a reported smoke detector activation at a building on Watchung Avenue, called in by an alarm company. The homeowner later requested cancellation, and the response was reduced to a single engine, which arrived to check the situation.

Smoke alarm activation near Watchung Avenue

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